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> I have an 8.4 GB hard drive that I had RH 6.1 installed on an older
> computer. I was planning to stick it into a newer pc to dual boot with
> WIN98. I have the hd installed and my bios recognizes both hds.
>
> My challenge is that I go into the install program to UPDATE the the system.
> I WANT TO KEEP /home the same and not format this partition. But the since
> the new hd is hdb the installer program is not recognizing the existing
> partitions and crashes....
>
> I have tried this at the boot promt for the installer
> root=/dev/hdb10 text
> I get an error for all hdbs saying that it does not recognize it as root...I
> have tried for all partitions to make sure that I am not right and installer
> does not recognize ANY partition as root.
>
> What can I do?
Just don't identify that drive during partitioning. As far as I know, if
you don't select the drive, nothing happens to it. A new /home will be
created on / but you can mount the untouched former /home drive parition
to there and there it will be. Add it to fstab and you're ready to rock
and roll. I ran a BBS for years with Linux and that's how it did it,
although I used fdisk and fips manually. But, that was all we had during
the dinosaur days before the meteor hit. Ric
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